Are you one of the many people enjoying the flexibility to being able to access the internet anywhere using your laptop and a USB modem? If so, you are probably bound by a monthly contract, which many of the prepaid wireless internet providers moved to when this mobile broadband first became available.



You can now enjoy the ability to have broadband on the move on a prepaid contract, enabling you to budget according to what you need in downloads per month.

Verizon Wireless was the first to introduce the prepaid service in the USA, but was closely followed by its main competitor AT&T. Both companies offer the same prepaid packages which enable you to take internet for one day, one week or per month. A day will cost you $15 and will give you 75mb of data; this is ideal if you are out of the office all day and need to stay connected to the internet.

The weekly limit is 250mb and you can expect to pay $30, while the monthly prepaid limit is 500mb at a cost of $50. The bonus with prepaid is you are not obligated and if you don’t need the internet for one or two months, you don’t have to pay for it, but it is nice to have the ability to have internet when you need it no matter where you are at the time.

Other close contenders are Virgin Media who charges a $60 price tag for 1GB and Millencom who offer unlimited for $60. While DataJack offer you 7GB for $49.99, there is always Cricket Wireless who charge $65 for 30 days, but offer you 7.5GB.

What you do need to be careful about when considering the plans these providers offer is if they cap the amount of usage. So if you are offered unlimited for 30 days for a certain price, is it in fact unlimited or is there a maximum?

Virgin Media and Cricket both slow down their data speeds the minute you reach 2.5GB, so you need to be careful of this when finding which provider best suits your requirements.

Enjoying the ability to check your emails or surf the web wherever you are, even in a moving vehicle is still new and exciting. For businessmen it is a necessity, but it has now been adopted by self-employed work from home owners, students and people who just want to be able to check their emails, social media sites and download quick information whenever they choose.

To have the ability to download information, surf the web and check emails on the go, you need to pay for it. The confines of a monthly contract have put a lot of people off buying these data plans. It’s frustrating having your mobile phone on a prepaid service, but you have to take a monthly contract for internet, well this has changed and you can now have the advantages of a prepaid plan on both your mobile and USB modem by finding the right prepaid wireless internet providers that meet your needs.